9 August 2012

Kaspersky Lab reports discovering
state-sponsored
banking malware.
Some news reports
claim
that "It is not believed that the hackers stole money from the bank
accounts, but were primarily interested in tracking and monitoring payments."
Maybe—but a few years ago, the NY Times
reported
that
"In 2003, the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies made plans for a
cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in the bank accounts of Saddam
Hussein and cripple his government's financial system before
the United States invaded Iraq. He would have no money for war supplies.
No money to pay troops."

We now know of Stuxnet, Flame, Duqu, and this one, Gauss. We haven't
begun to scratch the surface of what can be done.